by Leah Langby | Jul 22, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Ann Clark at So Tomorrow has a terrific blog post about some of her favorite music to use in a storytime for kids. It not only enriches storytime, it allows caregivers and kids to learn about some great new music to take home with them. Check out the...
by Leah Langby | Jul 18, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
We are getting more and more information about the importance of creating opportunities and spaces for children to explore, create and imagine during free play. It is crucial for social, emotional, physical and language development, to name just a few areas....
by Leah Langby | Jul 17, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Cole Zrostlik for contributing this post! Written by Carissa Samaniego, Education & Program Coordinator at Franconia Sculpture Park, edited for web by Cole Zrostlik Photos courtesy Rachele Krivichi, Cole Zrostlik, and Carissa SamaniegoDuring a...
by Leah Langby | Jul 16, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Jo Hick for sending in photos from this program. It looks pretty simple, but also really fun! Still scrambling for ideas? Here are a few crowd-pleasers.Digging up dinos (I am itching to do this myself!):Making dinosaur fossils with...
by Leah Langby | Jul 9, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Here’s one way to get a sense of all the great things that the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) provides to their members–you can check out this Twitter chat whether you are a member of ALSC or not, and whether or not you even have a...
by Leah Langby | Jul 8, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Some fun stuff out there recently about kids’ books!Here’s a recent article at the Atlantic website about an exhibit at the New York Public Library, curated by Leonard Marcus, a children’s book historian. It makes me want to go to New York...
by Leah Langby | Jul 3, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
This got lost in the shuffle, but it’s not to too late to promote this Wisconsin Department of Transportation Reading Challenge. Kids up to age 10 are encouraged to read books that include mention of various forms of transportation (bicycles, cars, boats,...
by Leah Langby | Jul 2, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
The children’s area at the Hudson Public Library had a very popular puppet stage, made of a large cardboard box, that delighted children for many seasons before it got too ragged. Enter a heroic young Boy Scout, working on his Eagle Scout badge. He started...
by Leah Langby | Jun 27, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
In Durand:Kids register on groundhogs, ants or worms and they are added to the tunnel (created out of paper towels!)In Pepin, kids who read decorate a piece of the bookworm growing daily:In Bloomer, capitalizing on Badger-fever (and drawing talent!), here’s a...
by Leah Langby | Jun 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
This blog post from Marge Loch-Wouters has some marvelous ideas for making the summer visits from daycare centers, camps, and other organizations more manageable. And if your summer is turning out to be full of mayhem from visits like this, it isn’t too...
